A new season awaits — that’s the theme of Jason Carmean’s column in today’s (Saturday’s) Mansfield, Ohio, News Journal. He shares the plans of he and his wife, Christy, to move to the Cameroon next year to help train pastors. A portion of the Viewpoint column appears below. Click here to read the complete story.

In the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes tells us life has seasons. We know from our own experience this is true. We experience family life in stages. We experience our careers in stages. We experience friendship in different stages and seasons as relationships grow and develop.

A new season is approaching for my family and I. We are moving to Africa next year, to the country of Cameroon on the west, to work in leadership development of pastors. Cameroon has about 80 Grace Brethren churches and only four trained pastors for those churches.

For those of you who attend church in the area, you understand how desperate that might be. Many churches in our area have more than four pastors in one church! Click here to read the complete story.